Have you ever wondered, how huge and bulky computers, of the size of an entire room, transformed into a much portable laptop? How have the fast processors evolved over a few years? Today’s smartphones are considered supercomputers. This lays a base for Moore’s law. This advent of technology is due to the number of components…
I have always been fascinated by people who could accomplish mundane chores with both hands. I still remember that eventful first day of eighth standard – our Math teacher left quite an impression on us when he solved a problem on the board while writing with both hands. As the students watched in awe, I…
An enigma beneath a smiling mask A Vigenère cipher you think you have the key to You see a tranquil stream but she’s a tsunami waiting for her earthquake She was once a white painting The beauty of the intricate strokes of the brush Her warm white, her tactile texture was lost on the foolish…
1991. Arguably the most remembered and celebrated year in contemporary India after 1947, and the most significant year in the economic history of independent India. The economy was in the deepest of chasms, when the government was forced to respond with a slew of major reforms. The origin of the financial crisis can be traced…
Will diamond replace silicon? Following the advent of new renewable energy resources and the increased demand to convert and deliver such energy efficiently, there has been a remarkable increase in power electronics market research. Scientists and researchers are aiming to make our current technology smaller and faster. However, they have run into several issues with material…
7:00 PM Ting! Facebook, internet troll at work, click, reply, Scroll… Random nostalgia looking at memories … Scroll… unrecognizable transition to sadness over not having met someone for quite a while, Ting! Snapchat, that person you never talk to in real life snapped you, click, snap, “Is this envy? No, I’m happy for her.” Ting!…
Have you ever wondered how gaming laptops give you such realistic experiences? How the graphics seem almost real? Most of us have GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) in our laptops. These GPUs are an example of parallel computing. Graphics as we all know are an array of pixels. Taking a normal processor each of these pixels…
We all know Hollywood can be tough on women. When Kathryn Bigelow won Best Director for The Hurt Locker in 2010, she became the first-ever female director since 1929 – the inaugural year of the Academy Awards – to win this coveted award. But Hollywood is hardly an outlier. There’s another high profile, big money…
Whenever you are dealing with mechanical systems, the most frequent points of failure are in the moving parts under stress. With that in mind, British aerospace company, BAE Systems, has designed a new flight control system that eliminates a number of the more vulnerable moving parts of the aircraft in favor of blown-air technology. Most…
Superconductivity is the phenomenon of a material having exactly zero resistance and expulsion of magnetic flux. This happens when a certain material is cooled below its critical temperature. It was discovered by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes on April 8, 1911, in Leiden. This is a quantum mechanical phenomenon and is characterized by the Meissner effect….